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Updated 2025-11-19 00:00
The beige GPU of your dreams is here, and it's pricey — Asus unveils Noctua Edition RTX 5080 fitted with 3x NF-A12x25 G2 fans and custom vapor chamber to achieve 'state-of-the-art quiet cooling
Asusa nd Noctua's RTX 5080 Noctua Edition features a triple 120mm fan setup with next-gen NF-A12x25 G2 fans and an upgraded heatsink for improved cooling and low noise. At 385mm and nearly four slots wide, it targets silent high-end gaming but demands ample case space. Availability and pricing are pending, but we expect it to cost over $1,500.
I expanded my Wi-Fi 7 network by adding a TP-Link Deco BE25-Outdoor satellite, quadrupling performance for long-distance connections in my backyard
For less than $150, I was able to boost my backyard wireless performance effortlessly.
Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti bought from Amazon had the box contents swapped for bag of suspicious white powder — PC hardware enthusiast bamboozled by Amazon just days after ordering a 5090 with no GPU co
A PC hardware enthusiast in Taiwan video recorded their Amazon-sourced RTX 5070 Ti unboxing only to discover the box contained a bag of salt instead of a graphics card.
Nvidia responds to claim China is urging local companies to avoid Nvidia H20 — report claims authorities have sent notices discouraging use, especially for government-related purposes
A new report claims that China is urging local companies to avoid using Nvidia's H20 chip.
Trump says Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan and his Cabinet to discuss company's future this week, make proposals next week — Intel responds
President Donald Trump met with Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan at the White House, days after calling for his resignation over alleged China-linked conflicts of interest, to discuss the company's future amid its technology struggles.
The pains of Intel: From CPU design and process technology challenges to internal clashes and political pressure
As Intel battles technology delays, mixed-bag products, stalled foundry growth, and internal boardroom rifts, there are now political calls for CEO Lip-Bu Tan's resignation over alleged ties to Chinese investments.
I created a convenient PC repair kit that I can take on the road — these are the tools that have come in handy when I'm PC problem-solving away from home
A good PC toolkit that has everything that you need to get work done, and it fits into a tin? It can't be done, right? Wrong!
Trump may allow Nvidia to ship hobbled current-gen Blackwell AI GPUs to China — U.S. gov't would get 15% of related revenue, China firms would get access to far faster GPUs
Trump signaled he may allow Nvidia to sell heavily downgraded Blackwell AI processors to China in exchange for 15% of related sales revenue to the U.S. government, a move that could give Chinese firms far faster hardware than current H20-based offerings.
Undervolted Zotac RTX 5090 reportedly catches fire during Battlefield 6 session
A Zotac RTX 5090 seems to have caught fire during a gaming session, damaging not only the GPU, but also the motherboard, SSD, and cooler. Likely caused by a MOSFET or VRM phase failure on the memory power rail, this marks yet another 5090 going down in flames in the long list of 40 and 50-series GPUs.
My PC won't shut off this ugly red RGB light — my motherboard has become my biggest aesthetic annoyance
My Asus Prime X370 Pro refuses to listen to my demand to turn off the lights when I turn off the system. I've resigned myself to it.
Get $400 off the latest Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 gaming laptop — RTX 5060 and Ryzen 9 CPU portable drops to just $1,400
The newly launched 2025 variant of the Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 is already selling at a discounted price.
GitHub folds into Microsoft following CEO resignation — once independent programming site now part of 'CoreAI' team
GitHub, one of the most used code repositories in the world, is being folded into Microsoft following the departure of longtime CEO Thomas Dohmke. GitHub was acquired by Microsoft in 2018 but remained largely independent until today.
Former Intel CEO lays out radical plan to rescue the company — Suggests outing Lip-Bu Tan and asks for $40 billion investment from Nvidia, Apple, and others
Ex-Intel chief Craig Barrett warns the US could lose its only advanced chip foundry without urgent $40B funding from major customers like Apple and Nvidia, pushing for High-NA EUV, 14A development, and tariffs on imports.
SK hynix wants you to buy s’more HBM4 to satisfy your high-tech cravings — company's X account compares cutting-edge stacked memory to summer treat
SK hynix has taken to Twitter/X to compare its delicately stacked HBM4 to some deliciously layered s'mores.
Eight-core Arrow Lake CPU listed for $150 overseas — Core Ultra 3 205 may not be directly available in retail, though
French retailers have started to list Intel's unannounced Core Ultra 3 205, an eight-core Arrow Lake processor.
Ryzen 7 5700X3D reportedly reaches 'end-of-life' — AMD's last eight-core Zen 3 3D V-Cache CPU ends production
AMD's Ryzen 7 5700X3D has finally reached end-of-life status. Various retailers have allegedly confirmed that AMD is no longer selling the 5700X3D.
SK hynix projects HBM market to be worth tens of billions of dollars by 2030 — says AI memory industry will expand 30% annually over five years
SK Hynix sees the AI-focused High Bandwidth Memory market growing about 30% each year to 2030, approaching $98B. Holding 70% share, it's banking on custom designs, HBM4, and U.S. expansion to keep its edge-despite looming oversupply, rising competition, and the uncertainty of trade politics.
Nvidia unveils 2U RTX Pro 6000 servers at SIGGRAPH — double shot of Blackwell power comes to smaller rackmount form factors
Nvidia has announced 2U server form factor compatibility with its latest RTX 6000 Pro Server Edition GPU, providing enterprise customers with the most compact method of deploying Blackwell AI GPUs yet.
Nvidia introduces compact Blackwell professional graphics cards — RTX Pro 4000 SFF and Pro 2000 GPUs arrive at SIGGRAPH 2025
Nvidia just released more affordable variants of Blackwell AI GPUs.
Google's AI could be tricked into enabling spam, revealing a user's location, and leaking private correspondence with a calendar invite — 'promptware' targets LLM interface to trigger malicious
Google's AI could be tricked into enabling spam, revealing a user's location, and leaking private correspondence, among other things, with just a calendar invite.
Nvidia and AMD reportedly sharing 15% of their China GPU revenue in exchange for export licenses — 'unprecedented' export revenue sharing deal may have been struck
Nvidia and AMD have reportedly agreed to pay the U.S. government 15% of China-sourced revenues to unlock export licenses for previously restricted chips.
Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan expected to visit Trump to address China links — duo tipped to have 'wide-ranging' conversation to address national security concerns
Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan, facing pressure from Trump over China ties, will reportedly meet the president to clarify his background and stress Intel's national security role. Tan, who led Cadence Design, aims to secure support for Intel's U.S. manufacturing amid strategic board tensions and slowed plant progress.
Scientists 3D print titanium fuel tank for space travel — world's first to pass critical durability test
A joint team has successfully 3D printed a titanium fuel tank that was able to pass a durability test for space travel.
Back in stock, this MSRP-priced RTX 5080 OC is the 2nd most powerful GPU available and is now just $999 for the overclocked variant
Stack up on frames with PNY's GeForce RTX 5080 OC at its lowest price
Rumored $599-$699 MacBook could be in the works — 12.9-inch model with iPhone 16 Pro SoC tipped for Q3 2025 production
Apple's manufacturing partners in Taiwan are reportedly preparing a MacBook deluge with a new level of affordability, according to industry sources.
Adaptec announces new RAID card that supports up to 32 NVMe PCIe 4.0 and 5.0 SSDs — offers up to 291GB/s read speeds at full capacity
Adaptec has introduced a new enterprise RAID card that uses software-defined storage to support up to 32 PCIe 5.0 SSDs with speeds of up to 291 GB/s.
CT scan peels back the layers of time to reveal the engineering within Intel’s iconic 386 CPU — exposing intricate pin mapping, hidden power planes, and more
A high-resolution CT scan of Intel's legendary 386 processor reveals its hidden inner world without breaking it open. See the complete 3D map of gold bond wires, detailed pin connections, and the layered power planes that powered one of computing's most influential CPUs.
The Asus Vivobook 16 Flip Laptop is on sale for all-time low $949 at Amazon
The Asus Vivobook 16 Flip Laptop is available at Amazon for one of its best prices to date - $949 instead of its usual $1,999.
New local AI integration into Firefox spurs complaints of ‘CPU going nuts’ — chip and power spikes plague new version 141.x
Firefox rolled out update 141 last month with AI enhanced tab groups, but an issue simmering under the hood has only now come to a head.
Dead RTX 4090 gets cooked beyond salvation — VRAM swap and multiple signal patch jobs fail as buried PCB traces give up for good in unsuccessful repair attempt
A lifeless RTX 4090 with 48GB of VRAM landed on a repair bench, showing no display output. What followed was a deep dive into diagnostics, power rail checks, and trace hunting-only to reveal hidden PCB damage so severe that even expert fixes couldn't bring the GPU back from the dead.
Microsoft brings AI-powered assistance to gaming — Copilot Gaming (beta) and Copilot 3D creative features went live this week
Microsoft is putting Copilot Gaming (Beta) on the Game Bar for Xbox Insiders, while giving every creator access to its new AI-driven 2D to 3D feature (as long as you have a Microsoft Account).
China state media says Nvidia H20 GPUs are unsafe and outdated, urges Chinese companies to avoid them — says chip is ‘neither environmentally friendly, nor advanced, nor safe’
A social media account linked to China state media says that users should avoid Nvidia chips.
Linus Torvalds calls RISC-V code from Google engineer 'garbage' and says it 'makes the world actively a worse place to live' — Linux honcho puts dev on notice for late submissions, too
Linux creator Linus Torvalds has publicly dismissed a RISC-V code contribution from a Google engineer as 'garbage.'
Self-taught modder builds completely transparent Game Boy Color circuit board that actually works — PCB looks stunning when matched with fully transparent shell
Natalie built the schematics and circuit herself, but ordered the clear PCB from a third-party supplier.
Intel's Nova Lake mobile specs leaks out, top end HX variant to feature 28 CPU cores and 4 Xe cores — Entire lineup is reportedly limited to a single compute tile
Core configs for Intel's Nova Lake mobile lineup has reportedly leaked, with the top HX variant featuring up to 28 CPU cores and 4 GPU cores. Nova Lake-H and Nova Lake-U families also detailed.
Newly discovered WinRAR exploit linked to Russian hacking group, can plant backdoor malware — zero day hack requires manual update to fix
WinRAR flaw CVE-2025-8088 was serious but has been fixed in version 7.13.
Major Intel Linux driver projects are dying due to Intel layoffs and corporate restructuring — compatibility and reliability issues could increase over time
Intel is continuing to drop more Linux maintainers and Linux drivers due to corporate restructuring within the company.
AWS user’s data returned ‘because one human being inside AWS decided to give a damn’
A software engineer, who previously accused AWS of 'digital execution,' has shared the good news that his data has now been restored.
Battlefield 6 surpasses record half a million concurrent players on Steam, an all-time high for the franchise — 520K+ open beta surpasses every Call of Duty ever in player count
If success could be measured by numbers, Battlefield 6 would invent new math. The game, which is in its open beta right now, has just crossed the 500,000 player count on Steam, beating not only every other Battlefield before it, but also every COD title ever.
Seagate's monstrous BarraCuda 24TB hard drive on sale for only one cent per gigabyte — drops back to Prime Day pricing at $250
Newegg is offering Seagate's legendary BarraCuda hard drive in its 24TB variant for only $250 right now, that amounts to a cent per gigabyte. These are great savings for a NAS-ready, 7200 RPM hard drive that use the fat better CMR tech instead of the archaic SMR method.
AOL will end dial-up internet service in September, 34 years after its debut — AOL Shield Browser and AOL Dialer software will be shuttered on the same day
Dial-up connectivity stalwart AOL has set a date for cutting off the remainder of its old-tech internet holdouts.
Blizzard's ex-CEO says Battlefield 6 will "boot stomp" Call of Duty this year because the franchise has "gone downhill" — calls it a victory for players as COD "won't be lazy" anymore
Battlefield 6 has been receiving critical and fan acclaim over the past few days, and Mike Ybarro, Blizzard's former president, has shared a similar sentiment. He says Call of Duty has "gone downhill" and that Battlefield 6 will "boot stomp" COD this year for several reasons.
California man sues Microsoft for discontinuing Windows 10 — says company is doing this to “monopolize the generative AI market”
Microsoft is ending support for Windows 10 by October 2025, but someone is suing the company to stop it from doing so.
Retailer ships RTX 5090 with missing GPU and memory chips to customer — defaced GPU took over a year to ship
Another victim has been scammed out of an RTX 5090 from Amazon's French location. Despite buying an RTX 5090 from an Amazon-hosted listing, the buyer received a card with a missing GPU core and missing memory modules.
Fully working PC fished out from a dumpster and rehabbed — trash-binned system can still run Linux and light games
The PC, which was rescued from a dumpster, has an Intel Core i5-6600 CPU and an AMD Radeon R9 380 GPU.
Battlefield 6 keeps crashing on Intel Arc GPUs — here are some workarounds until Intel releases a fix
Battlefield 6's open beta is crashing on Intel Arc A-series GPUs, with issues tied to the game's default Borderless mode. Intel is working on a driver fix, but players can avoid crashes by switching to Full Screen/Windowed or using a risky legacy control panel tweak.
Award-winning 1440p 300 Hz gaming monitor drops to a new all-time low of $269
The AOC CQ27G4ZH, our favorite gaming monitor and Editor's Choice, is currently available at Amazon for $269, its lowest price to date according to data from CamelCamelCamel.
Enthusiast builds 'AMD gaming PC' entirely made of cardboard — specs include unreleased AMD 5800GT CPU, DDR8 RAM, PCIe 6.0 SSD, and 2,400W power supply
A Redditor built several PC components out of cardboard with intricate detail to build a cardboard PC that spins and lights up. It's not a real computer, though.
$3 keychain lets you carry a functioning keyboard switch and keycap with you wherever you go — fidget toy is compatible with Cherry MX switches and keycaps
A Japanese company has started selling the My Key Keychain that accepts Cherry MX-compatible switches and keycaps, allowing you to bring your favorite keyboard feel wherever you go.
3D-printed PCB made with PVA and liquid metal is fully recyclable — dissolves and separates when immersed in water, allowing for later re-use
Researchers have developed a fully recyclable 3D-printed PCB that utilizes PVA and liquid metal.
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